The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

As a comic, you learn to use your voice because you don't have the benefit of visual things.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

I love all of the Earth.

Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years